The Stetson Reporter

Vol 83 Friday, April 2, 1971 No. 24 Floyd McKissick To Speak Floyd B. McKissick former national director of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) will make a guest appearance on the Stetson University .campus Wednesday (April 7) as part of the university lectures series on contemporary affairs. The scheduled program will include an informal question and answer period at 3:30 p.m. in the Stetson Room of the Carlton Union Building and a formal address at 8 p.m. in Elizabeth Hall Auditorium. McKissick served as national chairman of CORE from 1963 until 1966 when he was appointed national director to succeed James Farmer. He resigned in 1968 to spend full time building the black economy which he first advocated 25 years ago. He is now organizing black housing projects such as Soul City near Charlotte. North Carolina. Born in Asheville, North Carolina in 1922, McKissick attended Morehouse College in Atlanta before enlisting in the U.S. Army in December of 1941. Upon completing military service, he returned to Morehouse and after graduation enrolled at. the law school of North Carolina College. He later became the first black man to attend the University of North Carolina Law School. McKissick was admitted to the North Carolina Bar in 1952 and the United States Supreme Court in .1955. He is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia, North Carolina and before the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal District Court of Appeals, the United States Court of Appeals, and the United States Customs Court. He has addressed over 50 colleges, the Conventions of the American Society of Newspaper 3,000 Attend Rock Concert BY TIM CUNNINGHAM Vacuum-packed into the pews, seated in the aisles, and shoulder- to-shoulder in the hallways, over 2,000 Stetson students and music- lovers from all over Florida jived to the. sounds of Southpaw, Fantasy, and the Amboy Dukes Saturday in the Elizabeth Hall chapel. At least another 1,000 souls braved the fifty-degree weather outside the building. One of Stetson University's most successful cultural events was originally supposed to be held in the Forest of Arden beginning at 4:00 p.m. However, with the unexpected disbandment of Rush, one .of the scheduled bands, and the prospect of a cold evening, the concert was post poned until 7:00 p.m. and moved to Elizabeth Hall. The concert was subsidized by the Stetson Student Government, and intended for Stetson students only, but a popular radio station in Orlando broadcast news of Stetson's "free" concert. As a result, carloads of individuals from all over Florida began arriving early Saturday afternoon. Impatient for the music to begin, a few patrons of the art climbed in the window and on the desks, of the Registrar's Office, but were courteously shown out of the building by Stetson security police. At 7:00 p.m., the doors of Elizabeth Hall were opened and hordes of enthusiasts swarmed into the chapel. After a welcoming speech from Dean Borders, the audience listened to the thick tones of Southpaw. Southpaw was composed of a Joe Cockeresque lead vocalist and a versatile lead guitarist. In addition, Southpaw offered an adequate bass guitarist, a reticent organist, and a rather colorless drummer. Unfamiliar with the theory of team effort, this unlikely combination of artists produced an even less likely blues-acid-rock style. Southpaw was not unaware of crowd reaction, however, and created ear-rendingsound effects whenever audience interest began to fade. At most concerts, the interim between successive bands is filled with idle chatter or just plain boredom. .Perhaps the mood of Saturday's audience was most graphically expressed in their manner of self- entertainment. "Frisbees" floated back and forth between the chapel balcony, buffeted by cheers from the throng and stage- announcements reminiscent of Woodstock: "The Mayor of DeLand has informed us that no one will be allowed to camp-out on the campus overnight...there has been a lot of smoking outside, and two people were caught making love in the Forest (wild applause)." Fantasy, flaunting a Jefferson (Continued On Page 8) Editors, the American Liturgical Conference, and has testified before numerous congressional committees, including the Senate Committee on Urban Probelms. His first book, "Three-fifths of a Man," was published by MacMillan in 1969 and was followed by others in 1970. His appearance pn the Stetson campus Wednesday is being sponsored jointly by the Student Government and Stetson Artists and Lecturers Committee. It is open to the public without charge. History Conference To Be Held April 2-3 History teachers throughout the state are scheduled to arrive on the Stetson University campus this weekend to take part ih the 1971 session of the Florida College Teachers of History Conference which will be held April 2-3. The conference is being hosted: by the Stetson History and American Studies Departments and will include panel led by faculty members from junior and senior colleges across Florida. The FCTH is the organization for all junior and senior college history professors, said Stetson faculty member Dr. Gerald Critoph, FCTH vice-president and conference chairman. It seeks to promote good relations between history programs at junior and senior colleges and to make the transition smoother for students moving from one to the other. Registration will begin at 4 p.m. and continue until 8 pjn. Friday in the lobby of the University Inn. A reception at the DeLand home of Evans Johnson will be held from 5:30 until 7:00 p.m. "Constitutional Crisis," a panel chairmaned by Gilbert Lycan of Stetson will begin at 8p.m. in Davis Hall Auditorium.- Taking part in the discussion will be Charles Benson, Daytona Beach Junior College, Charles Asbury, Miami-Dade Junior College!, and Dwayne Little, Bethune- Cookman College. A panel on "The Teaching of History" will also be held at 8 p.m. in Room 203 of Flagler Hall. It will be chairmaned by Henry Watson, Daytona Beach Junior College, and will feature Marc Love'ace of Stetson, J. Neal Tolson, Santa Fe Junior College, and Donald Curl, Florida Atlantic University. Saturday's events will get under way with a breakfast at 7:30 a.m. in the American Room of the University Inn. Stetson president John E. Johns will give the welcome. Dr. Johns will be followed by J. Ollie Edmunds, Chancellor of Stetson, and Franis P. Whithair, president of the Bert Fish Testamentary Trust, who will speak on "The Roosevelt Era." "Depression and New Deal Views" will be the topic of the panel at 9:30 a.m. in Davis Hall Auditorium, chairmaned by Maurice Vance, Florida State University, and including Phil Drimmel, Daytona Beach Junior College, Wil-iam Parsons,; Florida Presbyterian College, and graduate student Douglas , Smith, University of West Florida. Stetson faculty member John Evans will chairman the "History of Europe" panel, which will also begin at 9:30 a.m. in Flagler Hall, Room 203._Taking part in the session will be Harold Schultz of Stetson, Max Kele and graduate student Overton Ganong, both from the University of Florida. A 12:00. luncheon in the Stetson Room of the Carlton. Union (Continued On Page 2) THURSDAY NIGHT RUNOFF RESULTS In the Thursday night run-off elections, the results were as follows: Men's Council President: Scott Kirk had 261 votes; Dave Williams, 198. Reporter Editor: Ernie Acosta, 372, Chobee Ebbetts, 321. Expressing the view that neither were qualified, 21 voted "No." There were 5 write-in votes for Dave Jordan, and 4 for Bob Mack. For Rising Junior Representative for Man's Council: Chuck Osborne beat Jeff Driscoll 79-45. For Rising Sophomore Representative: Brian Bayly came in first with 86 votes. Jeff Deen and Mike Everett also won seats with 81 and 82 votes respectively. Jeff Mozingo had 74 votes, Bob Jost, 49; and Steve Roy, 56. ■